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1821. July 6.
J.B. to Carvalho

and that, in a word, the less the quantity of factitious reward in all shapes is, in return
for which a man is willing to engage for the performance of the
service, the better the quality of the service done by him in
consequence is likely to be. Of this notion, the grounds may
be seen in the paper itself: and would, I believe, be to be found
here and there in view more than one of my published works. But, with
except in so far as the Government of the Anglo-American
United States affords an exception, in all governments, and more
especially in all limited monarchies, the endeavour has been –
so far from keeping it down, to embrace every occasion and
every pretence, for screwing up the quantum of official pay
to the highest possible pitch: at any rate, such, I am sure, has
been the constant endeavour of the Governmnet under which
I was born and bred; such has been its own and but too successful endeavour, notwithstanding all the excellence which
from causes, independent of any good will on the part of the rulers,
it has obtained credit for. Such being the nature of the case, as
any other conjuncture and then such an one as Portugal is in at
present, I should not have deemed it consistent with the wishes
of which the present offer is a proof contains the expressions, to hazard the drawings the
attention of any person, of the number of those on whom the
wishes depend for their fulfillment, to a notion, so strongly opposed
to the tide of ordinary personal interest, as that just mentioned is this about the proportion of reward to service. But,
in a conjuncture such as the present, a strong degree of excitation,
produced by the sense of a mixture of social prosperity success and social danger, and of a in support
thence operating with a proportional force in support of the universal interest, may not unreasonably be looked
for: and surely a man impressive testimony of an excitation of
this sort was now serve them that which had been so lately given operating in this manner, never was seen a more impressive
in my favour testimony more impressive than the proof so recently given, of that confidence
of which I am the object, and of which I can do no otherwise than
look to yourself, Sir, as the prime mover. After all, so extraordinary
is has the good fortune of having met with one such person seemed
to me, that, to promise to myself a continuance of the like at the hands of any
other person in the like situation, seems too much: and, therefore
it is, that I beg leave to refer it to your discretion, whether that
part of my offer, in which the question of gratuitous service and
small pay is argued, shall go into any other hands than yours
Curious

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Date_1	1821-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	202	Info in main headings field	jb to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 2776, vol. 10	ID Number	4651
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